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90DRE's avatar
5 years ago

Battlefield 5 - Unequip an emblem

Product: Battlefield V
Platform:PC
Please specify your platform model. PC
AMD or Nvidia Model Number Nvidia GeForce GTX 770
Enter RAM memory size in GB 8
Are you using any software with an overlay? No
Which part of the game is the issue happening in? Game Menu
In which game menu were you when the bug occurred? Profile
Please select your region Europe
On which server did this happen?
When did this happen? (dd.mm.yy hh:mm)
Summarize your bug If you go to Profile > Awards and equip an emblem, it is impossible to unequip it. This is clearly a bug, and a very frustrating one as its effects are visible in-game thereafter. The only "workaround" right now is to disable ALL custom content from the Settings > Gameplay menu, but this isn't addressing the bug itself.
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? From the main menu in the game, click on Profile > Awards and equip an emblem. Then attempt to unequip the emblem.
What happens when the bug occurs? It equips an emblem which you cannot ever unequip.
What should be happening instead? Clicking 'Equipped' should unequip the emblem.

If you go to Profile > Awards and equip an emblem, it is impossible to unequip it. This is clearly a bug, and a very frustrating one as its effects are visible in-game thereafter. The only "workaround" right now is to disable ALL custom content from the Settings > Gameplay menu, but this isn't addressing the bug itself.

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  • @90DRE Pressed the me too as indeed it is not possible and you have described the only workaroud available already.
    It might be a discussion if this is a bug or more a feature request. In this case might be good to add everywhere an unequipped indeed.
  • @90DRE If you are in a platoon/clan, then that emblem will override your soldier's emblem. Once you stop representing that platoon/clan, then your soldier emblem will take priority. Is this the case for you?

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    90DRE
    5 years ago

    @SterlingARCH3R [Edit] I've tried creating a platoon and leaving it, but it simply reverts back to the previous emblem. I've also tried creating a custom emblem using the Battlefield app and assigning it to my profile, but the custom emblem doesn't show in the game. There doesn't seem to be any means of removing the emblem once it's equipped. If you've never equipped an emblem, you will have a blank emblem. It should be possible to go back to this state.

  • @90DRE As far as I'm aware, there's no option for custom emblems in BFV. They're all pre-made designs. Once you equip an emblem, you'll have to either leave it at that, or change it out to a different emblem - there's no option to equip no emblem. And as you say, the only way to not have an emblem equipped is to either not equip one from the beginning, or create/join a platoon with no emblem at all and not leave that platoon or else it reverts back to your soldier emblem.

    If this is for camouflaging purposes, then I can see how that would bother you - I like to stick with a dark patch like the black SNAFU one because it seems to work with most environments.

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    90DRE
    5 years ago

    @SterlingARCH3R It's not camouflage that's the issue for me, though I'm sure it's also an issue, it's that it lessens the immersion by having an emblem on the side of the gun. It's not something you can ignore as it's visible at all times. It's frustrating that you can set something in a game and not undo it, and there's not even a warning before you commit to the action. It's obviously a bug though, as I doubt anyone planned this to be the effect of equipping an emblem. The coding effort required can't be that great either. They already have the code in place to listen for a click on the equip button, so just add a check if it's the same emblem then set it to a blank emblem:

    if (selectedEmblem is equal to equippedEmblem) {
      equippedEmblem = blankEmblem;
    }
  • @90DRE I read this 2 years after... So I should understand that's not something EA will care about.

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